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@@@@@Winning my way back into Charleston's good graces is like climbing an ice-covered mountain in the darkOne slip, and I'm deadSo far I've been very cautious and very slow, and I've made some small headwayI can't take the risk of your destroying all I've doneI want you to leave, and I'm asking your price Scarlett laughed with relief"Is that all? You can set your mind at rest if that's what's worrying youWhy, everybody in Charleston just loves meI'm rushed off my feet with invitations to this and that, and not a day goes by that somebody doesn't come up to me in the ? Market and ask my advice about her shopping Rhett drew on his cigarThen he watched the bright end of it cool and become ash"I was afraid I'd be wasting my breath," he said at lastI'll admit you've lasted longer and been more restrained than I expected oh, yes, I hear some news from town when I'm on the plantation-but you're like a powder keg lashed to my back on that ice-mountain, ScarlettYou're dead weight-unlettered, uncivilized, Catholic, and an exile from everything decent in AtlantaYou could blow up in my face any minuteWhat will it take?" Scarlett seized on the only accusation she could defend"I'd be grateful if you'd tell me what's wrong with being a Catholic, Rhett Butler! We were God-fearing long before you Episcopalians were ever heard of Rhett's sudden laughter made no sense to her"P Henry Tudor," he said, which made no sense eitherBut his next words struck to the bone with their accuracy"We won't waste time debating theology, ScarlettThe fact is-and you know it as well as I dothat, for no defensible reason, Roman Catholics are looked down on in Southern societyIn Charleston today you can attend Saint Phillip's or Saint Michael's or the Huguenot church or First Scots PresbyterianEven the other Episcopal and Presbyterian churches are slightly suspect, and any other Protestant denomination is considered rank individualistic displayRoman Catholicism is beyond the pa